GOLDEN APRICOT ON WHEELS TO TAKE PLACE IN ARTSAKH
PanARMENIAN.Net/
11.08.2009 17:57 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The International Film Festival Golden Apricot
will visit Artsakh for the third time. Best movies of the Golden
Apricot 6-th International Film Festival will be screened again in
the framework of the "Golden Apricot on wheels" in Stepanakert and
Shushi between 19 and 23 of August.
"Inhabitants of Armenian regions have few opportunities to watch real
cinema since cinema halls were sold to restaurants, and today the only
way of watching movies is through television," Harutyun Khachatryan,
director and founder of the Golden Apricot festival said.
Dwellers of Karabakh will watch the films, winners of this year: "The
other bank" by Georgi Ovashvili, "Boundary" documentary by Harutyun
Khachatryan, "Autumn" by Ozcan Alper, "Vandals of the 21-th century"
by Ashot Movsisyan and Spartak Gharabaghtsyan.
"Mainly Armenian and Russian films will be screened in Artsakh, "Ara
Khanjian, deputy director of Golden Apricot told a press conference
in Yerevan today.
According to him, Armenian films, as well as movies and cartoons
for children are in brisk demand in the Armenian regions. Ara
Khanjian added, that the "Golden Apricot on wheels" will be opened
with screening of the masterpiece of Sergei Paradjanov "Color of
pomegranate", not only because of its 40th anniversary but also
to fulfill numerous requests of Artsakh people in recent years.